linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 23/99] TTY: n_gsm, fix false positive WARN

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Date:	Thu,  7 Jul 2016 11:37:22 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 23/99] TTY: n_gsm, fix false positive WARN_ON

3.19.8-ckt23 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>

commit d175feca89a1c162f60f4e3560ca7bc9437c65eb upstream.

Dmitry reported, that the current cleanup code in n_gsm can trigger a
warning:
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 24238 at drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2048 gsm_cleanup_mux+0x166/0x6b0()
...
Call Trace:
...
 [<ffffffff81247ab9>] warn_slowpath_null+0x29/0x30 kernel/panic.c:490
 [<ffffffff828d0456>] gsm_cleanup_mux+0x166/0x6b0 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2048
 [<ffffffff828d4d87>] gsmld_open+0x5b7/0x7a0 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c:2386
 [<ffffffff828b9078>] tty_ldisc_open.isra.2+0x78/0xd0 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:447
 [<ffffffff828b973a>] tty_set_ldisc+0x1ca/0xa70 drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c:567
 [<     inline     >] tiocsetd drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2650
 [<ffffffff828a14ea>] tty_ioctl+0xb2a/0x2140 drivers/tty/tty_io.c:2883
...

But this is a legal path when open fails to find a space in the
gsm_mux array and tries to clean up. So make it a standard test
instead of a warning.

Reported-by: "Dmitry Vyukov" <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+bHQbAB68VFi7Romcs-Z9ZW3kQRvcq+BvHH1oa5NcAdLA@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: 5a640967 ("tty/n_gsm.c: fix a memory leak in gsmld_open()")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/tty/n_gsm.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c
index bce16e4..db37ee4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_gsm.c
@@ -2045,7 +2045,9 @@ static void gsm_cleanup_mux(struct gsm_mux *gsm)
 		}
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&gsm_mux_lock);
-	WARN_ON(i == MAX_MUX);
+	/* open failed before registering => nothing to do */
+	if (i == MAX_MUX)
+		return;

 	/* In theory disconnecting DLCI 0 is sufficient but for some
 	   modems this is apparently not the case. */
-- 
2.7.4